In case you missed it - #TheIndieBeat FM has a new channel called "Not What I Call Radio Bonk Wave", managed and curated by bonkwave.org.

You can access it in either place:

https://theindiebeat.fm/not-what-i-call-radio-bonk-wave/

https://not.what.i.call.radio.bonkwave.org/

It's mostly playing tracks from the compilations at the moment, but we're expanding it so that any past contributor can submit their own tracks and vote on submissions - see this contributor-only thread on the board: https://bonkwave.org/board/index.php?topic=131.0

#BonkWave #NotBonkWave

Yesterday I wrote that disabled people are canaries in the coal mine for pandemics & climate change.

Today legendary director David Lynch has died after spending the last year in isolation trying to avoid Covid AND being evacuated from his home due to LA wildfires.

People were worried Lynch was retiring, he made it clear he was isolating due to Covid

Like many of us with disabilities, he was left behind. People craved his work but wouldn’t wear a mask so he could create safely. “You do you” policies pushed him out of the public eye.

Pandemics and climate change will sadly impact all of us eventually. Disabled people are just first.

We must work together to save the canaries:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/disabled-people-are-the-canaries

#pandemic #climatechange #covidisnotover #covidisairborne #disability #ableism #wildfires #losangeles #davidlynch

Anyone looking to get a few new ears on their music? I always need more independent musicians to write about!

Here's a summary of how it works:

https://www.etherdiver.com/2024/04/04/opm-other-peoples-music/

Please DM me submissions! They get lost in my mentions otherwise.

And if you submitted something to me more than 2 weeks ago AND it's your first submission (i.e. I haven't covered your work previously), please reach out! I think I misplaced a few submissions... 😅

My favourite audiophile Youtube channel with several good reasons why he’s ditching Spotify - well worth a watch, and worth subscribing if you want to explore the more affordable end of high-end audio.

https://youtu.be/0inUSlM8pI8?feature=shared

The California wildfires are an example of how quickly you can lose everything. People have lost homes, possessions and some have even lost their lives.

Disabled people are the canaries in the coal mine. Anything that can impact others will likely hit us faster and harder.

When you don’t have your physical health, your resilience is impaired. Surviving pandemics, wildfires and natural disasters becomes much harder.

Why aren’t we factored into emergency planning? If our needs were accounted for, everyone would be better off.

My latest article looks at how we can (and should) be saving the canaries. How deaths like those of Anthony and Justin Mitchell should never have happened.

If no one is coming to save us, we need to start discussing how we can save each other:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/disabled-people-are-the-canaries

#wildfires #california #climatechange #eaton #altadena #palisades #disability #disabilityrights #ableism #emergencypreparedness #chronicillness

Biden is spending his last month in office naming a Navy aircraft carrier after Bush, whose illegal wars killed hundreds of thousands of Afghan & Iraqi civilians, & sending $8B in arms to accused war criminal Netanyahu, as he commits genocide of Palestinians.

No ERA. No student loan cancellation. No pardoning of 3000 non violent drug offenders in prison. No pardon for Peltier or Donziger.

Just more money for genocide & more praise of a man who mass murdered brown people.

This is who Biden is.

hello!! I’m hosting the closest thing you can get to a launch event for an indie record in 2025. That's right, a Bandcamp listening party!

Join a lovely group of folks to listen to my new album, the Loula Yorke Live Compendium, this Thursday 16th January at 7pm (UTC).

I'll be using the chat as my first go at an 'ask me anything' type thing – so if there's something that you've been pondering, hop on it.

Looking forward to seeing a few of you there.

https://loulayorke.bandcamp.com/merch/loula-yorke-live-compendium-listening-party